Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 01:05:41 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Adam Ryan Mcdougall <mcdougall@ameritech.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the place of vi Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980414010430.16398C-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <3532FB4B.541EC6EE@ameritech.net>
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On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Adam Ryan Mcdougall wrote: > Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > > > OK, here's a question... > > Is vi statically linked? > > If so, what's the chance that it could be stuck in /bin, say? > > It's kinda aggravating to bring the system up in single user mode and have > > to fsck and mount /usr jsut to be able to change something stupid in > > rc.conf that I forgot. > > He shoots... OHH HE MISSES! > > % ldd /usr/bin/vi > /usr/bin/vi: > -lcurses.2 => /usr/lib/libcurses.so.2.0 (0x20056000) > -ltermcap.2 => /usr/lib/libtermcap.so.2.1 (0x20062000) > -lc.3 => /usr/lib/libc.so.3.1 (0x20066000) Doh, I figured it probably was, but I can pray, can't I? > btw you can try to make a static vi by editing the Makefile in the src > dir for vi and adding CFLAGS = -static > remember the bin will be in /usr/obj/ :) Any thoughts on the wisdom of this? I *CAN'T* be the only one who thinks this way... *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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